New Release Round-up,
Jazz New Release Round-Up - 11th August 2022
This week's crop of new jazz releases include a duet album of double bass and experimental electronics on ECM by Barre Phillips and György Kurtág Jr, Japanese jazz vocalist Noriko Miyamoto's 1978 debut Push reissued on Barely Breaking Even, and a new offering from Norwegian prog-rock band Motorpsycho.
This new ECM recording is one of the more out-there you'll hear from the label this year, featuring improvised bass from American bassist Barre Phillips and textural electronics from György Kurtág Jr (yes, that György Kurtág), a pair that complement themselves excellently.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
We're stretching the definition of jazz again a little for this one, but new from Rune Grammofon is the latest album from Norwegian prog/jazz-rock trio Motorpsycho, only 16 months after the completion of their 'Gullvåg Trilogy' of albums.
Available Format: CD
Originally released in 1978, this new release from Barely Breaking Even is the debut album of Japanese soul & jazz vocalist Noriko Miyamoto. With more of a disco/soul background than jazz, Push managed to garner a crossover appeal in mainstream audiences of the time, and was produced in collaboration with the late multi-instrumentalist, arranger and composer Isao Suzuki, known in Japan for helping to develop promising young talent.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Available Formats: Vinyl Record, MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
On Xose Miguélez' sophomore album Contradictio, the Spanish saxophonist draws from the sounds of his local Galicia region, Paris and New York through a set of both standards and originals, with a quartet featuring French pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, and Portuguese rhythm section Carlos Barretto and drummer Marcos Cavaleiro.
Available Format: CD
The band on Heat Wave was conceived during the pandemic by Israeli saxophonist Idit Shner, Zimbabwean vocalist/percussionist John Mambira, and the Oregon-hailing pianist Torrey Newhart, bassist Garrett Baxter, and drummer Ken Mastrogiovanni, would jam together in their living rooms as their children attended virtual classes. Meaning "the lion spirit" in the Zimbabwean Shona language, Mhondoro's Heat Wave melds the unmistakable sounds of American jazz with traditional Zimbabwean music for a diverse debut record.
Available Format: CD
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